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o] o Lemur Live upto groups of 25 / females dominant / eat fruit mainly / diurnal / aye-aye in nocturnal lemur / more social than lorises Lorises closely related to galagos = distributed in tropical africa + SE asia / noctural / solitary in behavior / feed on fruits + insects / prehensile hands / communicate vocally and marking / galago are related families and faster moving e Haplorhini (suborder) e Tarsier (infraorder #1) o In SE asia o Small primate / nocturnal super predator / leap through trees to catch prey / eyes don't move in socket need to move head to see / don't live in large groups but do live in monogamous pairs e Anthropoi infraorder #2) (all monk 11 including h e - parvorder : platyrrhini (new world monkeys) o New world monkeys Appeared about 40 million years ago / Long before S america was connected to Central america. New world Monkeys must have arrived by jump dispersals (like due to floods bla bla) / New world monkeys from Africa are what studies say today! characteristics = small bodies, 3 premolars (all others like us have 2 molars), all arboreal no terristorial, prehensile tails among some (old world monkeys don't prehensile tails, Flat nose, wider distance between nostrils compared to old world monkeys / dental formula new old monkey: 2.1.3.3 / old world = 2.1.23 5 families evolved due to adaptive radiation (atelidae, cebidae, pitheciidae, callitrichidae,aotidae [it is not aye-aye]) e - Parvorder: Catarrhini (old world monkeys and all apes) O o (©] Found in africa, asia, middle east, small portion of europe Inhabit wide range of habitat Focusing on superfamily cercopithecoidea: compared to new world monkeys, old world monkeys are greater size range than new world monkeys, greater degree of sexual dimorphism (males larger than females), old world monkeys have ishial collosities (thickened pads on rums to sleep on trees without being eaten by